Schools celebrate Veterans Day

Photo above left by Alan M. Dumoff (ccdphotolibrary.smugmug.com); 2 right photos by James A. McBride

Above: James McIntosh, Maj. Gen. USAF, reads at the alumni veterans Mass at Camden Catholic High School, Cherry Hill, on Nov. 11. McIntosh is a member of the school’s Class of 1956. The Mass included the lighting of a candle for each of the high school’s 25 graduates who died in service to their country.

Right: Kindergarten students at Christ the King Regional School, Haddonfield, hold flags during their Veterans Day celebration Nov. 12; Mary Helf, school nurse and a veteran, assists the third graders with the proper way to fold the flag.

Left: The students, faculty and staff of Holy Trinity Regional School, Westville, form the letters USA on the playground during the school’s celebration of Veterans Day. The school hosted two guests, Sgt. 1st Class Rudy Ruiz, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom who was awarded a Purple Heart, and Cpl. Matthew Massing, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.